First potential Raleigh.
 

This is all I have on this bike. What year and model is this Raleigh? I would assume 1970s due to the lack of braze-on. Also, it's equipped with a Campagnolo drive train. Just for the record, it may also not be a Raleigh since I have never seen one in this color scheme. http://images.kapaza.com/photoslarge...00/8760043.jpg

Hmm, I've never seen that paint job nor that seat tube decal style before. What country are you in? Could have been a particular export model.

Neal

are you sure it's campagnolo? I mean we can't see anything campagnolo in that photo. that said it looks decent... looks like a full 531 frame... super mighty cranks are nice. Based on the flat crown and centerpulls combined with 80s paint scheme I might guess it was repainted...

It's located in Belgium. The adds states that it has a campagnolo drive train but that's all they wrote. Asking price is 75 Euro. I'm going to check it out in the weekend. If it's a full Reynold 531 frame then I'll most definitely get it.

Mafac brake calipers, Shimano 105 levers, what looks to be a Sugino NR-crank imitation (note the open slots in the spider arms, green paint in the LH crankarm flute), and, in the unlikely event this thing DOES have Campagnolo on it, it can only be some form of later '90s RD with a slant parallelogram to look like that from the reverse side. Doesn't even look like Campag high-flange hubs, but Shimano high-flangers from the early 600 era.

Looking quite forward to your field report on this one. Something tells me it is worthy of our Numbskull thread. Particularly so if it is found not to have a stick of Campagnolo on it, of which I would not be in the least bit surprised.

-Kurt

Nor, possibly, a stick of Reynolds -- 531 decals are cheap. Like Jerry Maguire you say, "Show me the [27.2 mm] seatpost."

Me too. I wouldn't dooubt it if it turned out to be some POS, but it may also turn out to be something pretty good; like that fake Colnago I got a few months back which turned out to be a pretty sweet ride with very good components. We'll see.

Which shall be conveniently frozen solid into the now worthless frame.

That isn't to say it isn't 531 if it doesn't have a 27.2 though - we all know that. Straight gauge 531, as the Raleigh Super Course was indicative of, came in quite a few sizes.

P.S.: My '61 Paramount P-12 uses a very tight-fitting 27.0 post - straight-gauge 531, if I recall right. Recently found a section of the downtube wherein you can read the "REYNOLDS 531" lettering through the paint. Fun stuff.

Take care,

-Kurt